Handelingen 27:15

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

En toen het schip voortgerukt werd, en niet tegen den wind kon opzeilen, gaven wij het op en dreven zo heen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Die dreef het schip voort; wij konden tegen den wind niet op en lieten ons zonder weerstand te bieden drijven.

Staten Vertaling
En als het schip daarmede weggerukt werd, en niet kon tegen den wind opzeilen, gaven wij het op, en dreven heen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we: Acts 27:27, James 3:4

Reciprocal: Psalms 107:27 - are at their wit's end

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the ship was caught,.... By the wind, snatched up by it, and forcibly carried away:

and could not bear up into the wind; and against it, or look it in the face, as the word signifies; could not ply to windward, the wind being so high and the sea so strong:

we let her drive; about the sea, at pleasure, it being in vain to attempt to get her forward against the wind, or to direct her course.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ship was caught - By the wind. It came suddenly upon them as a tempest.

Could not bear up ... - Could not resist its violence, or the helmsman could not direct the ship. It was seized by the wind, and driven with such violence, that it became unmanageable.

We let her drive - We suffered the ship to be borne along by the wind without attempting to control it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 27:15. And when the ship was caught — Συναρπασθεντος δε του πλοιου. The ship was violently hurried away before this strong levanter; so that it was impossible for her, αντοφθαλμειν, to face the wind, to turn her prow to it, so as to shake it out, as I have heard sailors say, and have seen them successfully perform in violent tempests and squalls.

We let her drive. — We were obliged to let her go right before this tempestuous wind, whithersoever it might drive her.